fight over spending to keep the government open. having an impact on that is the cost of the republican tax plan which is $1.5 trillion. here s what the white house director of legislative affairs told hallie jackson in the last hour. the children s health insurance program will be funded, hallie. by the end of the year? there s probably going to be a short-term fix in january. and will be fixed in the larger january spending bill. joining us now is kavita patel who is currently a practicing physician and nonresident fellow at the brookings institute focusing on health care reform. big question. is the repeal of the individual mandate a death blow to obamacare? it s actually not. it s not good, don t get me wrong. but it would be a real death blow if with what republicans had been trying to do was get rid of pre-existing coverage or guaranteed issue as we call it. to call like this and what s ironic is the mandate was actually a republican idea.
this has happened? this seems sort of mccarthy word era banning if in fact it is true? it s unprecedented certainly in my lifetime. the fact is that the progress we have made is a result of technology that is science based. and i would also add that it s programs that are evidence based. and to exclude the use of that language by the organization that is responsible for that progress is absolutely insane. it is flabbergasting. i want to bring you in. you are a practicing physician. what went through your mind when you read this report? what could the reason be for this? if it wasn t for the washington post i had a hard time believing it was real. i ll give aconcrete example. a lot of your viewers are familiar with the zika issues
casualties here, but nothing as big as this. this is the biggest one we ve had in 20 years. and today a plea from las vegas s mayor to those looking for help, to help. what we ask for is blood. that s the main thing right now. is that if our people want to do something and they are healthy, then please donate blood. meanwhile, the governor of the state said today more help is on the way. my next step to sign an evacuation order that provides a waiver for out of state health care provider, doctors, nurses, other licensed personnel to be able to give these guys a break. any out of state doctor, physician or nurse will be able to practice here? pretty much, yes. dr. cory herbert is a practicing physician and professor at tulane. thank you for joining us here. with over 500 gentlemen, how do you prioritize that? the key words are triage and triage and triage.
todd: three senate republicans rejecting the so-called skinny repeal of obamacare, what does this mean for millions of americans struggling with healthcare? a member of the independent board of directors, thank you for being here at an early hour. tell us your story. i was a practicing physician for 16 years, when the 2008 election took place i got very concerned that there would be some development that would hurt the relationship of those who provide care, provide to our patientss, hospitals, you name it so i ran for congress in 2010 and was privileged to be the first female physician elected
ends up going back to what things were like before obamacare. sh talks about the death spiral and destruction that obamacare is, i want everybody to remember that before obamacare, if you had a pre-existing condition, you didn t get insurance and you were in a high-risk pool and insurance was prohibit actively expensive for older, sicker people. i want to talk more about this with a practicing physician. and she s a fellow at the brookings institute. you and i been talking about this, gosh, for years now. and fundamentally i think people need to understand two distinct things about this new bill. one is this cruz amendment and the stuff it does to premiums. and the second one is that it largely, and we may be surprised on monday when we see the cbo score, but it largely continues to cut into medicaid. there are 74 million americans on medicaid, many of those people are on medicaid because of medicaid expansion that was part of the obamacare legacy.